DETROIT – The Detroit Tigers send
their most potent offensive team onto the field today for the rubber
game of a three-game set against the Cleveland Indians, with the
winner to leave Comerica Park in possession of a one-game lead in the
American League Central.

Max Scherzer (8-2, 4.39), who along
with Justin Verlander gives the Tigers the only duo of eight-game
winners in the AL, takes the mound for the 1:05 p.m. start with an opportunity to become the fourth nine-game winner in baseball, along with Boston's Jon Lester, and the Philadelphia stars Roy Halladay and Cole Hamels.